Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3D0E24D3.10305@heaton6.freeserve.co.uk> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 19:05:07 +0100 From: Garry Heaton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020611 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Newbie: How to get permissions working with 'ntsec'] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've tried all these ntsec/ntea combinations but still have no permissions. Can anyone tell me how to get Cygwin working with standard UNIX file permissions? No-one seems to know how. Garry Heaton On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 11:59:26AM -0400, Norman Vine wrote: > >> CYGWIN = `ntsec ntea check_case:strict' > > can ntsec and ntea be used together ?? >> ntsec overrides ntea on NTFS, ntea will still work on FAT, though. >> I suggest to switch ntea off. It creates a special file on FAT >> filesystems which grows more and more and which can't be deleted >> with simple operations. >> >> I suggest not to use check_case:strict, too. We created it for >> a customer. Case checking is only implemented inside of the >> path evalutaion routines in Cygwin. The underlying filesystems >> are still only case preserving. You will run into problems >> which are pretty hard to track down as a user. >> If you like checking the case, at least switch to check_case:adjust >> which is somewhat less nitpicking. >> Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/